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Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Friday 10th February, between 14.00 and 18.00 EST, and 20.00 and midnight GMT, for your edification and amusement, Temporal Tales will present The Venetian, a temporal tale by Simon Cornish @Unforgivingmuse.

Who is Nigel Chundleblanket and exactly what does he want?

A classic interpretation of 'a man walks into a bar'.

In yet another experiment with the format, this short tweeted story has been laid out as a reported conversation. The tweets on Friday will be coming thick and fast so hold onto your seats and keep your feeds open.

What is a Temporal Tale?

Temporal Tales are short fictional stories broadcast in real-time on twitter. Such stories are not simply prose that has been chopped into 140 character slivers like literary salami, but narratives that have been written to take full advantage of the immediacy of the medium through which they are being sent.

As a reader you can dip in and catch up with the previous tweets in the tale, or avidly wait to pounce on each tweeted morsel.

Tale in Progress

Temporal Tales Submissions

Temporal Tales is looking for inventive, high-quality narratives that work within the format. They can be designed for broadcast over anything from 1 to 10 days. Please have a look at our About page for guidance on writing temporal fiction.

Please send stories as .doc .txt or .pages to:

muse @ simoncornish.com* or direct message the editor at @temporaltales. If your story is accepted we'd also like to put a few details about yourself as a writer and help promote your latest work on the Temporal Tales blog.

*Anti spam-bot measure. Please remove the spaces either side of the @ or the email address won't work.